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Councils of Arles, Nantes, Rouen, Toledo, Tours, 24; their decrees as to stoneworship, 23-4.

Countless Stones, see Aylesford.

Court held at standing stones of Rayne by Bishop of Aberdeen, 264.

Cove, Long stone, 4.

Cremation amongst Saxons, 120.

Crew, Lough, 199.

Crichie, find at, 75.

Crimthann, when he lived, 190, 221; where buried, 192; seat of his dynasty, 194.

Croker, Mr., his survey of Stanton Drew, 150.

Crom, meaning of word, 44 note.

Cromlech, near Merivale, 55; among Măla Aryans, 479. See Dolmen.

Cross Flats, 11.

Crosses, 270, 272; Irish, how distinguished from Scottish, 270; Isle of Man, with Runic inscriptions, 273; crosses in circles, 304; "Swastica"-like cross, 367; in India, and their date, 486 et seq.

Crozon, alignment at, 367; what battle there, 375.

Cruachan, ancient burial-place of Kings of Tara, find, 190-9.

Crubelz, 359.

Crusades, rude-stone monuments in time of, 406.

Cuchullin, 193-7.

Cumberland, no mention of Druids in, 5; rude monuments, 127, 128; circles in, probably of same age, 147; circle-building race in, 274.

Cumbhail (Fingal), 197.

Cumot, or Commensurate grave of Cairbre Lifeachaire, 213.

Cumrew, Salkeld and Mayborough, circles at, similar, 147.

Cuneus, Cape, unvisited by Portuguese writers, 378.

Cunningham, Lord Albert, finds by, at Dowth, 210.

Cunnington, Mr., his opinion as to Marden. 86; excavation by, at Stonehenge, 105-6; finds in long barrows, 289.

Curtius cited as to Nasomenes, 407.

Cuthbert, 22.

Cuttack, sacred groves at, 465.

Cyviagnon, pile of, mentioned in Welsh Triads, what, 173.

, the hound, interment of, 212.

Daghda, the general, 187; and king, ib.; where buried, 191; when, 190; real name Eochy, 192; cairn of, ib.; residence, 195; his spit, ib.; family, 197, 212; his tomb where, according to author, 213; written evidence as to, 212.

Dagoba, Buddhist, 41, 79, 490 et seq.; relic, cists. Tee, rail, 490-1; compared to dolmen at Pullicondah, 491.

Dananns, Tuatha de, 177 et seq.; arrival in Ireland, 193; when, ib.; burial of, 212. See Ireland, Moytura.

Danes, cemeteries plundered by, 209.

Danish antiquaries, their opinion as to epoch of introduction of bronze and iron into Denmark, 9,37; their system respecting, 9, 10, 28; too hastily adopted in France and England, 10, 388; their mistaken proceedings, 10- 14, 16, 146, 257, 275; International Congress of Prehistoric Archæology, 276; merits of Sjöborg, 276.

Danish isles, dolmens in, 301.

Danish settlers in Greenland, 18; in Britain and Scotland before Roman invasion, 133-4; commerce, &c., 133.

Daoulas, menhir and cross at, 59.

Darabgerd, circle near, 453.

Dariorigum, standing stones of, 20.

Dartmoor parallel stones at Merivale Bridge, 54; circles and cromlechs, 55; avenues at Cas Tor, 56; circles compared with those at Rollright, 124.

Dasyus the despised, 493.

Date, priority of, in dolmens external or covered, 144.

Dates, found and corrected by architects, 113; comparative antiquity of certain classes of monuments, 261; rude-stone sometimes more modern, 407.

Dathi, monument of, 199.

Daviot circle, 263.

Dead, images of, 449.

Deane, Rev. Bathurst, adopts Stukeley's views, 6, 151; visits Carnac, 351.

Decrees of Councils respecting veneration of stone monuments, 24, 25.

Dedalean buildings in Sardinia, why so called, 429.

Deer Park, Sligo, monument in, 234-5.

Defence, see Mounds.

Deh Ayeh, circle at, 453.

Delhi, iron pillar near, 35; mosque of Kutb u deem, 457.

Demi-dolmens, 345.

Demons, see St. Patrick.

Denmark, megalithic remains in, 9; museums, ib.; bronze and iron, date of their introduction into, ib.; tombs of kings described by Olaus Magnus, 15 ignorance of Romans respecting, 38 tumuli in, 39; circles in, 47; Bauta or battle-stones, 60.

Dennis' 'Etruria' cited, 391.

Derbyshire dolmens, date of, 36; rude-stone monuments in, 138.

Derbyshire Rude-Stone Monuments, 138; Arbor Low, 139; description of, 139; similarity to Arthurs Round Table, 139; plan of, 140; circle, 140; dolmen, ib.; tumulus, ib.; excavations and find there, 140-1; Gib Hill tumulus, 141; excavation and find, 141-2; Minning Low, 142; plans of, 142-3; find there, 143; similarity to New Grange, ib.;